Hame for harness.



No. 807,387. PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905. I. LARSEN. HAME FOR HARNESS.

APPLIGATION FILED OUT. 8, 1904.

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'IVER'I LARSEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAME FOR HARN ESS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Original application filed April 7, 1902, Serial No. 101,646. Divided and this application filed Qctoher 8, 1904. Serial No. 227,711.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVERT LARsEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hames for Harness; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in adjustable hames designed more particularly for harness adapted for use by fire departments, where it is desired to provide for the suspension of the hames and collar in connection with other parts of the harness over the tongue or shaft of the apparatus or vehicle in such manner that the hames or collar are in open position when suspended and the 1parts thereof are adapted to be quickly app ied to and looked upon the horse when the horse is in position to be attached to the fire apparatus. Certain of the features of construction may be employed in connection with harness for other uses.

The invention claimed herein is disclosed in my prior application for United States Letters Patent No. 101,646, filed April 7, 1902, of which this application is a division.

Among the objects of my invention is to simplify the construction of connecting the upper parts of the hames with each other and to provide means whereby said hames may be readily adjusted to adjustable collars adapted'for use on horses having diflerent widths of withers.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a collar and a set of adjustable hames fitted to the collar, said hames being provided with my improvedhinge connection at the upper ends thereof. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of said hinge connection. Fig. 3 illustrates a nut by which the hinge-bolt of said hinge connection is locked in place.

As shown in said drawings, A designates a collar of that class which is separated at its lower or throat end and the side members of which are flexibly joined at the upper or wither end of the collar, whereby said side members may be swung toward and from each other for the purpose of applying the collar to and removing the same from the neck of the horse. The lower or divided ends of the collar are held or locked in place in Fig. 3.

by means of suitable locking devices on the hames B, that herein shown consisting of a bolt B at the lower endof one of the hames,

which enters a socket-piece B at the corre sponding end of the other hame.

Inasmuch as the. construction of the hames per se and the manner of locking the lower ends together constitute no part of the present invention, said hames neednot be further illustrated or described.- It may be stated, however, said hames are endwise adjustable in order to adjust the same to collars of different lengths, as set forth in my aforesaid prior application, the details of such adjustment being fully described in said application. 1 The invention herein disclosed consists of the means for hinging the hames at the upper or Wither end of the collar wherebysaid hames may be adjusted to fit collars of different Widths and lengths and also to fit the same to a collar adjustable to horses having diflerent-width withers. Said hames are hinged at their upper ends for this purpose by means constructed as follows: The upper end of one of the hames is provided with lat erally-separated fork-arms B B Fig. 2, and the upper end of the other or corresponding harne is provided with a head 13*, which fits between the fork-arms B and said parts are connected by means of a pintle or bolt 7), as clearly indicated in Fig. 2. Said pintle is provided at one end with a head and is screwthreaded at its other end to receive a holding-nut b, which latter is more clearly shown Said nut is split and provided at one slde with parallel lugs through which extends a clamping-bolt b for locking the nut on the bolt, the construction described enabling the nut to be locked on the bolt after the nut has been turned inwardly on the bolt to clamp said parts in place. Said fork-arms and head are provided with registering apertures b b, respectively, Fig. 1, through which said pintle extends, and said fork-arms and the head are elongatedto provide a plurality of such registering a ertures, whereby by engaging the bolt wit different corresponding apertures in the forkarms and head the hames may be fitted to collars of different widths and lengths and also to adjustable collars adapted to horses having dlfferent-shaped. necks and withers. As herein shown, three sets of apertures b b are provided, thereby affording three different adjustments of the hames. A greater or less number of adjustments may be afforded by -increasing or decreasing the number of registering apertures b b. In each adjustment of the hames the pintle extends through corresponding apertures of the fork-arms or heads, whether it be the inner opening for the narrow adjustment, the outer opening for the wider adjustment, or the intermediate opening for the intermediate adjustment, so that whatever adjustment is made the pintle always occupies a central position relatively to the longitudinal axis of the collar. The fork-arms and head are in the straight portions thereof containing said pintle-apertures inclined upwardly above the general line of curvature of the upper parts of the hames, the purpose of such construction being to afford a closer adjustment of said parts than if the extended parts of said fork-arms and head be extended in curved prolongation of the upper ends of the hames. It is obvious that with the inclination shown the amount of change of width in each adjustment is less than if said head and fork-arms were curved extensions of said upper ends of the hames.

Minor changes may be made in the construction of the connection described with out departing from the spirit of the invention, and I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction excepting as hereinafter made the subject of the specific-claim.

I claim as my invention A air of hames for a horse-collar one of whic is provided at its upper end with forkarms and the corresponding end of the other with a head which fits between said forkarms, said fork-arms and head bein provided with a plurality of longitudina y-disposed, registering apertures, and a pintle adapted to extend through corresponding apertures of the fork-arms and head, said fork-arms and head being made straight and inclined upwardly away from the curvature of the upper ends of the hames.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 80th day of September, A. D. 1904.

IVERT LARSEN.

Witnesses:

W. L. HALL, G. R. WILKINS. 

